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The Future of Music Genres Is Here

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Re: The Future of Music Genres Is Here

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Post by pistle »

kitsune_ wrote: post #7

Ah, genres. In the 90's, I was into Breakbeat Hardcore and then later Jungle, which transformed into Drum & Bass, which was subdivided over time into Ragga, Neurofunk, Tech Step, Hard Step, Jump-Up, Clown Step, Liquid Funk, Ambient Drum & Bass, Drumstep and so on. Of course, what I understand under "Drum & Bass" is very different from a 18 year-old teenager who thinks late-period Pendulum is the greatest thing on ear…

Not to mention the examples given for some old genres I used to know are horribly misrepresented here... genres are totally useless - then hindered a bit more by the newest wave of genre name factory music critics/writers.

Clownstep! DoA geezer!

Re: The Future of Music Genres Is Here

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Post by jader201 »

I found it interesting that they having "Video Game Music" listed as a genre. I'm not sure you can classify video game music under a single genre.

I listen to video game music quite a bit (some sub-genres more than others), but you can find pretty much every genre listed here in at least one video game.

Sure, there may be a few video games that feature music that doesn't fall into any other "genre", but if somebody told me to describe what video game music sounded like, I couldn't do it, like I could with most other genres.

I don't really care, I know this is just someone's interpretation of a genre. I just found it interesting and thought it was worth mentioning.

Re: The Future of Music Genres Is Here

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Post by pistle »

makmanalp wrote: post #33
untothebreach wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I see the same thing happening in metal. When I was in highschool, there were a few genres -- mostly 'thrash/speed', 'death', 'black', 'progressive' and maybe a couple more. In college I kind of got away from metal, and in my late 20's got back into it. After getting back into it, I thought "what the hell happened?!!?" There are now so many genres, I don't even know where to start. The hardcore punk of the 80's and 9…

No offense, but your comment reminds me all too much about the elitism that surrounds music criticism. I listen to a wide range of metal. I, for one, encourage the experimentation and the cross pollination with other genres. Who really cares whether this, for example: ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ry0dHtwD4TU ) is metal or not? Mostly people who care more about being "fucking metal" than music. Is it such a surpri…

Seriously.. that's not metal. Just because a metal band once made a song that sounded a little like something on that album (when they crossed over to general acceptance) doesn't change the objective FACT that it is a sad version of some prog rock crap from the 70's.

Javascript is not strongly typed. Nothing can change that fact.

Genres in music aren't more complex now. They are becoming more meaningless. When the new set of kids come through and don't understand the historical context and meaning to the way the same term lumped music tone and song structure together, it puts on display how much "music" IS just fashion. Metal implies a certain set of social perceptions that the listener wants to evoke, but the correlation to the music is all gone.

Maybe someone wants to wear the metal coat of armor instead of being labelled a pansy light-alt-rock fan, but that link is more the latter than the former.

So many times, the genres' names sound more like how someone wants to present themselves philosophically vs. what is actually engendered in the production of the sound being labelled. Minimal house, neurofunk, metal, death metal, etc.

And there is no point in ever having another prog band or song. Same with jam bands and songs.

Re: The Future of Music Genres Is Here

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Post by mturmon »

sanoli wrote: post #22
mturmon wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Makes me think of the Clash dissing Paul Weller and the Jam for not being punk ("they got Burton suits, they think it's funny, turning rebellion into money"). That tension between style and righteousness.

This is on Wikipedia, but there's no source: "...a jibe at an unnamed group who wear Burton suits, taken by many to be The Jam (though in an NME article of the time, Strummer claimed the actual target was the power pop fad hyped by journalists as the next big thing in 1978) and the lyric concludes that the new groups are in it solely to be famous and for the money." I also thought it was aimed at the Jam, as it was r…

About Weller voting Tory, I don't see it. He was just being irascible. None of the songs from In the City read as Tory, rather the opposite.

Re: The Future of Music Genres Is Here

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Post by jcutrell »

aeontech wrote: post #36
jcutrell wrote: post #24

So I used the Echonest API on my final masters project, which created a shared music taste profile based on people in a given location, and used Echonest's built in smart playlist to play music in the space. As a part of the application, I also built a D3 visualization quite similar to the one in this article for the tastes of the individuals and the tastes of the location. It's amazing how much you can learn about a…

Is the project available anywhere? I'd love to play with it!

Working on reinstating the domain name. I let it lapse, and it went into redemption status.

If you'd like, you can shoot me an email (address is in my profile) and I'll email you when it's back up and running.

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